Education and Information Transfer Core

项目总结（见说明）; 教育和信息传递核心（E/IT核心）的结构是：1）促进AD相关研究人员和专业护理人员的发展。2)教育家庭照顾者和公众关于AD和我们的ADCC活动。3)为我们服务不足的拉丁裔和美洲印第安人社区提供创新的教育和外展计划。4)促进拉丁美洲人和美洲印第安人的招聘 研究参与者，与临床核心，包括教育有关的价值脑银行捐赠的神经病理学核心。5)继续开发和更新我们的中心网站。5)与阿尔茨海默氏症协会沙漠西南分会和其他机构和组织密切合作，为AD研究人员，专业护理人员，患者及其家人的需求服务。 6)与其他ADCC核心密切合作（包括在受试者招募中与临床核心合作，与数据管理核心合作制定有效程序，以跟踪教育/外展工作与临床核心受试者入组之间的关系）。(7)与阿尔茨海默病教育和转介中心，与其他ADC的教育和信息核心， 其他机构和组织参与编写和评估教材。 除了继续在我们的ADCC上一个资助周期中取得成功的专业和社区教育工作外，为实现我们的目标，新计划的战略包括：（A）跟踪曾经参加我们ADCC的前研究生，博士后研究员和医学生 专业教育计划，关于AD相关的贡献，目前的职位，出版物和赠款;（B）在少数民族社区教育/外展，跟踪参与者在临床核心，临床试验和其他AD相关研究的参与;（C）开发和评估教育材料，重点是少数民族脑库（神经病理学核心）的参与;（D）开发一个合作的 医疗住院医师教育计划与亚利桑那大学家庭和社区医学系，重点是AD诊断和护理的病人从服务不足的少数民族，与实践的影响和对转介到ADCC临床核心和其他AD研究项目的评价。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions); The Education and Information Transfer Core (E/IT Core) is structured: 1) To promote the development of AD-related researchers and professional caregivers. 2) To educate family caregivers and the public about AD and our ADCC activities. 3) To provide innovative education and outreach programs to our underserved Latino and American Indian communities. 4) To promote the recruitment of Latino and American Indian research participants, in conjunction with the Clinical Core, including education concerning the value of brain bank donation within the Neuropathology Core. 5) To continue development and updating of our Center Website. 5) To work closely with the Alzheimer's Association Desert Southwest Chapter and other agencies and organizations serving the needs of AD researchers, professional caregivers, patients, and their families. 6) To work closely with other ADCC Cores (including with the Clinical Core in participant recruitment, with the Data Management Core to develop effective procedures to allow tracking of the relationship between educational/outreach efforts and Clinical Core participant enrollment). (7) To collaborate with the Alzheimer Disease Education and Referral Center, with the Education and Information Cores of other ADCs, and with other institutions and organizations in development and evaluation of educational materials. In addition to the continuation of professional and community education efforts that have been successful in the previous funding cycle of our ADCC, newly planned strategies to pursue our goals include: (A) Tracking of former graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and medical students who have been part of our ADCC professional education programs, regarding AD-related contributions in current positions, publications, and grants; (B) In minority community education/outreach, tracking participation of attendees in Clinical Core, Clinical Trials, and other AD-related research; (C) Development and evaluation of educational materials focused on minority brain bank (Neuropathology Core) participation; (D) Development of a collaborative medical resident education program with the University of Arizona Department of Family and Community Medicine, focusing on AD diagnosis and care of patients from underserved minorities, with evaluation of impact on practice and on referral to ADCC Clinical Core and other AD research projects.